Running a Tor Exit Node for fun and e-mails

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To understand the logistics behind running a Tor Exit Node, I will tell you how I got to run my Tor Exit Node for over 8 months. Hopefully, during the process, some of your questions will be answered, and you’ll also learn some new things. Please note that this is my personal experience and I cannot guarantee it will be the same for you. Also, I must state that I have run other exit nodes in the past, as well as multiple non-exit relays and bridges.
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A great first person account on running a Tor Exit Node.

Some stats after 8 months:

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It has been running for almost 8 months

It costs 4,90 EUR / month. In comparison, the same server in AWS would cost $1,122, or 992€ as of today

The total cost to date is 40€. In comparison, the same server in AWS would cost about 8,000€.

It is pushing up to 50 Mb/s, every second

It relayed over 70 TB of Tor traffic

It generated 2,729 Abuse E-Mails

It is only blocking port 25, and this to prevent spam

It helped hundreds or thousands of people to reach an uncensored Internet

It helped even more people browse the Internet anonymously and with privacy

Considering the bandwidth used by governments for immoral purposes, the observation:

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Finally, just like with everything else, we have malicious users. Not necessarily highly skilled criminals, but people in general who (ab)use the anonymity that Tor provides to commit things they otherwise wouldn’t.
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doesn’t trouble me.

As a general rule, highly skilled or not, criminals don’t carry out air strikes against hospitals and such.

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